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Bearing responsibility for clue type solvers can crack (10)

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I believe the answer is:

answerable

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'bearing' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'responsibility for clue type solvers can crack' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'clue' could be 'answer' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'answer' is located in the answer.
'can' could be 'able' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'able' is found within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for answerable that I've seen before include "Responsible" , "Having to report (to)" , "Taking reponsibility" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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